Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

A well begun is half ended.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.